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Volume 21 (=386 pages) is in honor of James Lovelock (1919-2022). Please note that most of the chapter contributions do not mention James Lovelock, but a few do. The chapters (by professional philosophers and other scholars and professionals) are directed to issues related to death, life extension, and anti-death, broadly construed. The contributions consist of relevant reprints as well as scholarship unique to this volume. As was the case with all previous volumes in the Death And Anti-Death Series By Ria University Press, the anthology includes an Abstracts section that serves as an extended table of contents. There are 15 chapters, as follows: CHAPTER ONE Laughing At Death: Police Officers, Cruelty, Philosophers, And Humour (Giorgio Baruchello and Ársæll Már Arnarsson) pages27-54; CHAPTER TWO Lovelock's Novacene: Meditations On Personhood For Intelligent Machines By A Scholar, Artist, And Executive (Marvin Cheung) pages55-74; CHAPTER THREE Examining Realities Of Life, Death And Eternal Living (Tor Claussen) pages75-118; CHAPTER FOUR Artificial General Intelligence Issues And Opportunities (Jerome C. Glenn) pages119-136; CHAPTER FIVE Gaia Theory - Reflections On Life In The Universe (William Grey) pages137-172; CHAPTER SIX Between Life And Death: Exploring Cryonics And Grief (Robin Hillenbrink) pages173-204; CHAPTER SEVEN Address Before The 18th General Assembly Of The United Nations -- 20 September 1963 (John F. Kennedy) pages205-216; CHAPTER EIGHT How Universities Have Betrayed Reason And Humanity-And What's To Be Done About It (Nicholas Maxwell) pages217-254; CHAPTER NINE The Life And Death Of Habitable Worlds (J. N. Nielsen) pages255-274; CHAPTER TEN Anti-Death And A Heart-Centric Approach To Cryonics: Lessons From The Neuroscience Of Grief (Nikki Olson) pages275-290; CHAPTER ELEVEN First-Edition Book Foreword -- 1 January 1987 (Gerard K. O'Neill) pages291-294; CHAPTER TWELVE Blockchain Of Life: Some Thoughts On A Possible Future Resurrection Project (R. Michael Perry) pages295-310; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Speculative Inquiry Into Enhanced Humans And Future AIs (Charles Tandy) pages311-330; CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Coming Technological Singularity: How To Survive In The Post-Human Era (Vernor Vinge) pages331-350; CHAPTER FIFTEEN Matters Of Life And Death: Reflections On The Philosophy And Biology Of Human Cryopreservation (Brian Wowk) pages351-386.

Beautiful, popular, eighteen-year-old Kelly Spence survived a horrendous head-on collision with a truck carrying cement-blocks only by the grace of God and the unwavering faith of her family.

In Liberal Education and Democratic Citizenship, Michael H. McCarthy carefully describes the many crises confronting American democracy and identifies their philosophical, cultural, and institutional origins. He argues that a liberal education, properly understood, can address several of these crises effectively.The book's successive chapters explore the sources, areas, and levels of division in contemporary America, and show how they have created important disagreements about the major challenges we presently face and the credible solutions they require. McCarthy articulates what a liberal education actually is and why it is vitally important for both our personal and civic lives. He also clarifies the critical contrast between effective freedom, the aim of a liberal education, and the concepts of freedom within economic and political liberalism.McCarthy addresses the distinctive educational challenges presented by modernity and post-modernity: their moral aspirations, acute historical consciousness, and passion for radical criticism, as well as the traditional (Tocqueville) and contemporary (William Galston and Charles Taylor) discontents of American democracy. A central part of the book's unfolding argument is the enduring cultural contrast between the principles and aspirations of civic republicanism and the imperial assumptions of economics. This juxtaposition helps us to understand the power and limitations of the "stories we Americans live by" as well as the civic virtues we commonly need to create a free, just, and multi-racial America. These critical virtues, McCarthy argues, are the specific goal of a liberal and democratic education

One of the most provocative and controversial writers of his time, these essays comprise George Bataille’s most incisive study of surrealism

Humanistic studies has been subjected to critiques from the inside of the university disciplines and shrinking support structures on the outside; moreover, recent technological developments have trapped humans in the maws of the information machine, where will, agency, and dialogue are constantly stunted and mediated, disclosing a nihilistic, dilated present. Against this panorama, Peter Carravetta argues that there is a need to recover the "human" in humanistic reflection, here described as a free social, creative, yet elusive being, caught between idealizations (utopias, concepts of society, autonomy of powers), the realities of survival (basic economics and geographies), and the dynamics of power (the languages and the praxis of actually running the society). The Humanist Project: Will, Judgment, and Society from Dante to Vico presents Dante as the first true humanist, with his stressing the preeminence of free will and individual responsibility in the life of the polis; Boccaccio's later encyclopedic works as a philosophy of existence and history; Pico della Mirandola's autopoiesis of the thinking and acting human in light of recent theories of interpretation, the self, and society; Machiavelli and the challenge of chance in determining sociohistorical patterns; Campanella as the last true utopic writer and first to conceive of a realist, world-scale political vision; and Vico as the thinker who identifies and describes the dialectic between historical recurrences and the free will of the individual.

This companion is both an introduction to and a guide through Edith Stein's On the Problem of Empathy. The opening essays demonstrate the work's historical significance and its relevance for contemporary philosophical discussions, while the subsequent chapters provide a clear and detailed summary of each section of Empathy.

The motivation for Sociology and Classical Liberalism in Dialogue: Freedom is Something We Do Together is based on two observations: first, sociology as a field is populated with scholars on the left and second, (few but still) classical liberals and libertarian scholars are found in neighboring social science fields, such as economics, political science, and political philosophy. Can scholarship benefit if sociology and classical liberal ideas are in dialogue? To answer the question, the book gathers sociologists, criminologists, demographers, and political scientists that care about classical liberal ideas, or are willing to engage their sociological thinking with classical liberal ideas. Not all authors would identify themselves as classical liberals. These contributors discuss sociological topics through the lens of classical liberalism, asking how issues such as class, gender, or race relations can be viewed with a different perspective. Chapters also delve into the intersection of sociology and classical liberalism, exploring where viewpoints conflict and where they align.

"Atheism has been on the rise in the West for several decades, but its roots, including those belonging to secularism, agnosticism, and freethought, run deep in Western history, philosophy, and thought. Drawing on a multitude of sources from a number of disciplines, S. T. Joshi outlines the natural origins of religious belief in primitive times and charts the slow development of secular accounts of natural phenomena in the Greco-Roman world. Adopting the " Christ myth" theory, he surveys the emergence of a new faith- Christianity- that grew out of Judaism and explores its evolution through the medieval period. He then examines the increasing schisms within the church and conflicts between religious and political entities that caused a fracturing of the monolith of Christianity and the birth of the Renaissance, which not only brought to light the literary glories of the Greco-Roman world but also led to a scientific resurgence and the development of a secular view of the cosmos. By the end of the sixteenth century, as he concludes, the stage was set for the emergence of a worldview free of religion"--

Dissecting Cannibal Holocaust examines the layers of Ruggero Deodato's controversial horror film including its relevance to cinematic and literary history, anthropology, nature studies, ethics and censorship, media and journalism, documentary filmmaking, representations of post-colonialism, and genre cinema.

Hindus, Jews, and the Politics of Comparison argues that comparative studies of Hindu and Jewish traditions can generate alternative epistemologies, critically interrogating the Eurocentric and Protestant-based paradigms in the academy that have perpetuated the ideals of Enlightenment discourse and colonial and neocolonial projects.

"If the AI transition goes well, human labor becomes obsolete. Furthermore, at technological maturity, human nature becomes entirely malleable. We will thus enter a condition of 'post-instrumentality', in which our efforts are not needed for any practical purpose. In such a solved world, what is the point of human existence? What gives meaning to life? What do we do all day? Deep Utopia shines a new light on these old questions, giving us glimpses of a different kind of existence, which might be ours in the future." -- Dust jacket.

This unprecedented exploration of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges presents him as a thinker of the political whose prolific fiction responded to totalitarianism. Martín Plot contextualizes Borges' work with other critical responses to totalitarianism from Claude Lefort, Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Carl Schmitt.

Decolonial Pluriversalism offers a unique, powerful, and crucial perspective on decolonial theories, political thoughts, aesthetics, and activisms. In going beyond a postcolonial critique of eurocentrism, it provides some of the most original interventions in the field of decolonial theory. Drawing from the Francophone worlds, Latin American and Caribbean philosophies, it explores concepts of creolization, racialization, Afropean aesthetics, arts and cultural productions, feminisms, fashion, education, and architecture.Contributors: Zahra Ali, Luis Martínez Andrade, Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun, Jane Anna Gordon, Mariem Guellouz, Léopold Lambert, Alanna Lockward, Fátima Hurtado López, Olivier Marboeuf, Donna Edmonds Mitchell, Corinna Mullin, Marine Bachelot Nguyen, Minh-Ha T. Pham, Françoise Vergès, Patrice Yengo

Grow in wisdom with this practical guide to Stoic philosophy for modern day-to-day lifeDiscover the path to a more contented, fulfilled life through the teachings of Stoic philosophers, from Marcus Aurelius to Epictetus. Learn how to build resilience, foster inner peace, and harness self-control.Stoic philosophy is not an armchair philosophy: it was designed by the ancient Greek and Roman philosophers to be used in day-to-day life, and their teachings offer a host of simple, practical ideas to maximise positivity in our lives.Tackling a key theme each month, from Happiness and Health to Money and Politics, Everyday Stoicism guides you through the calendar year to build a toolkit of simple exercises and practical ideas for how to live these values every day.So, harness the collective wisdom of the ancient Stoic philosophers today and discover the joy of everyday stoicism.

Live Your Life Like a Kung Fu Master is simple and straightforward, presenting a total of twenty-five Kung Fu techniques.

"This book presents an original theory of the just price, and it is a welcome addition to scholarship on a radically underdeveloped field. This work reassesses the age-old idea that there is a just price of things, one that goes beyond the Scholastic tradition of the just price and its exclusive concern with commutative justice. There is more to just price theory than the concern for keeping equality of value between goods exchanged. Modern concerns over efficiency, autonomy, and distributive justice, can also find a place within a theory of the just price. The book: - Presents a new approach to just price theory through a broad analysis of different values and the incorporation of those conceptions into a wider normative framework - Argues that these different values ground varied conceptions of the just price, and - Promotes a virtue-based approach to price justification as an adequate framework for meeting the challenges that stem from each conception Perfect for scholars and students in the fields of jurisprudence, philosophy of private law, contract law, and political theory, this book makes a significant contribution to legal theory and the emerging field of the philosophy of economics"--

The stories behind and legacies of important sports photos from the last 130 years.

Seeks to introduce an "affective turn" to the study of China's political modernization process.

This book is a continuation and generalization of the author's monograph "Chronoartifacts of thermodynamics", in which artifacts (erroneous results) associated with the concept of time have been identified and eliminated. The basis is a new approach named Borgartonics, that is a set of principles and methods using the concepts: macropoint, dissipator, chains of dissipators, discrete chronoscales, chronogenesis, etc. The artifacts of space and time in mechanics, electrodynamics, thermodynamics, and special theory of relativity are examined and classified; methodological ¿clues¿ (judgments of philosophers, physicists and mathematicians) are clustered. A generalization of Borgartonics, Protophysics (M. Bunge's term) is proposed. In Protophysics, the following concepts considered as physical fictions are excluded: point event, world line, the four-dimensional interval, light clocks, light vector, relative and absolute simultaneity. On the basis of protophysics, fundamental and structural artifacts of Space and Time have been eliminated. The book can be useful for students, teachers and researchers, physicists, mathematicians and philosophers with a penchant for nonstandard thinking.

Lumière, structure, ligne, ombre = photographie Detlef Orlopp (*1937) a débuté en 1955 son apprentissage de photographe et aujourd'hui, 70 ans plus tard, l'artiste a derrière lui une oeuvre éclatante. Jusque 1973, il a aussi été professeur à l'école d'arts appliqués (Werkkunstschule) de Krefeld. En 2015, le musée Folkwang d'Essen lui achète une part importante de ses archives. Entièrement voué à la photographie analogique en noir et blanc, l'artiste « peint » avec la lumière, la structure, la ligne et l'ombrage dans le champ thématique des paysages et des portraits. Il choisit des détails de la surface de la terre dont il dissimule l'origine matérielle et réduit l'immensité à la perspective en profondeur de la surface. La comparaison insuffisante de grandeurs donne naissance à un ordre nouveau de l'image que le degré d'abstraction affranchit au niveau des formes. Les détails de paysages de Detlef Orlopp ne sont ancrés ni dans le temps ni dans l'espace, ce sont des abstractions reconverties en éléments imagés structurels. Ils ancrent l'artiste dans l'art moderne du 20 e  siècle. Le tachisme de Wol, la structure « all-over » des drippings de Jackson Pollock, la gestuelle d'un Hans Hartung dont il a notamment vu le travail à Documenta 2 ont prescrit la ligne et la structure de ses images photographiques qui font souvent l'effet de traits de pinceau. Le cahier grand format « Partout nos traits éclatent » (Überall splittern unsere Gesichtszüge) paru à l'occasion de l'exposition montre pour la première fois des travaux de la série des glaciers.     Exposition : Kunstverein Heilbronn, 24/2 - 5/5/2024

Le (cauchemar) de l'homme parfait Louisa Clement s'intéresse dans son travail à la question de la présence humaine dans l'artificiel ou, le cas échéant, à la présence de l'artificiel dans l'humain. Elle a d'abord fait sensation avec son oeuvre « Représentantes » (Repräsentantinnen) (2021) où elle fait intervenir 10 clones robotisés qui, en plus d'une ressemblance parfaite avec elle, disposaient par le biais de la technologie d'un accès à toutes les informations et données personnelles la concernant. L'IA leur permettait d'imiter l'artiste et de la reproduire le plus fidèlement possible jusqu'à en devenir les revenants, pourtant dotés chacun d'une vie propre. Louisa Clement a aussitôt été élue à l'unanimité pour le prix d'art de la ville de Bonn 2023 : « Malgré sa jeunesse, l'artiste Louisa Clement a déjà créé une oeuvre à la force et la cohérence exceptionnelles... et a convaincu [le jury avec son] projet [inédit] qui se situe à la jonction de l'art et de la science, tout en traitant des sujets d'actualité brûlants tels que le rapport entre l'homme et l'intelligence artificielle, l'individu et l'algorithme, l'expérience et le flux de données. » Pour l'exposition au Kunstmuseum de Bonn (22.2-16.6.2024), elle développera et perfectionnera son travail actuel intitulé « Compression » (2023), une capsule métallique de 2 cm de haut qui contient un ADN synthétique généré à partir des jeux de données tirées de l'oeuvre complet de l'artiste jusqu'à aujourd'hui et doit le conserver pendant 1000 ans. Exposition : Kunstmuseum Bonn, 22/2 - 16/6/2024

Since moving from Amsterdam to the rural Uckermark region in north-eastern Germany, artist Marieken Verheyen has undertaken small sensory expeditions into the fascinating forest areas just a short walk from her atelier. She searches for traces of their inhabitants and the people who use the forest and attempts to feel her way into the forest creatures' ways of seeing and thinking. In the process, Verheyen finds, again and again, that the entire world can be found compressed into this small area: contradictory ideas of nature, the often opposing interests of various users of the forests, and the destructive influence of the climate crisis. Her images also depict the irresistible yet elusive power and beauty of nature.

Courtside: 40 Years of NBA Photography is a spectacular photographic collection spanning the first four decades of Butler s career, including the current draft class s rookie season. With commentary from NBA legends across generations, including Patrick Ewing, Steph Curry, Jeremy Lin, and Victor Wembanyama, this is the insider look at the National Basketball Association and the man whose photographs have helped define its rise. This handsome coffee table book is the perfect gift for the basketball fan in your life.

"A deep dive into the similarities between science fiction studies and critical posthumanism, this book establishes a common theoretical ground between the two fields upon which currents of future-oriented thought can meet and begin to share a common language. An investigation into the everyday condition of humanity in relation to technology and our perilous situation in the Anthropocene, the book features case studies of sci-fi authors Isaac Asimov, Ursula K. Le Guin and Kim Stanley Robinson, Doctor Who, and the videogame Outer Wilds. Formulating a new critical paradigm which recognises the value of such works to posthumanist thought, it demonstrates that urgent discourses around our shared future are more imperative than ever"--

"This extensively updated new edition on psychotropic prescribing for children and adolescents provides guidance on developmental pharmacology principles, expertly reviews common medications and featuring tips, tricks, metabolism/pharmacogenetics, and side effects. A must-have manual for anyone prescribing in the field of mental health"--

An eminent philosopher explains why we owe it to future generations to take immediate action on global warmingClimate change is the supreme challenge of our time. Yet despite growing international recognition of the unfolding catastrophe, global carbon emissions continue to rise, hitting an all-time high in 2019. Unless humanity rapidly transitions to renewable energy, it may be too late to stop irreversible ecological damage. In The Pivotal Generation, renowned political philosopher Henry Shue makes an impassioned case for taking immediate, radical action to combat global warming.Shue grounds his argument in a rigorous philosophical analysis of climate change's moral implications. Unlike previous generations, which didn't fully understand the danger of burning carbon, we have the knowledge to comprehend and control rising carbon dioxide levels. And unlike future generations, we still have time to mitigate the worst effects of global warming. This generation has the power, and thus the responsibility, to save the planet. Shirking that responsibility only leaves the next generation with an even heavier burden-one they may find impossible to bear.Written in direct, accessible language, The Pivotal Generation approaches the latest scientific research with a singular moral clarity. It's an urgently needed call to action for anyone concerned about the planet's future.